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Thread #94868   Message #1841327
Posted By: Bob Bolton
23-Sep-06 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: English To English Translation Needed
Subject: RE: English To English Translation Needed
G'day again Jerry (I shouldn't try to push my 2-&-2-halves-finger-typing skills too far ... when my darling wife is standing at the door reminding me that we should be at a friend's party ... NOW!),

What I meant to say, in the last paragraph, was:
Interestingly, when I read the text out aloud ... I find it hard not to give it all an "Ocker" (coarse/slangy Australian) accent ... and I could understand every word! Frankly, a lot of it sounds like a recycled version of Barry Humphries' Ocker parlance for his Barry ('Bazza') McKenzie character of the '70s.

I would have found almost everything the visiting cat has to say entirely in line with what "Bazza" might have said ... standing at the door, trying to cadge a kip and a beer or ten from a chance acquaintance in London's Earls Court ... back in the comic strips / novels / films of The Advemtures of Barry McKenzie.

Maybe the author of Get Fuzzy has been trawling through the wrong stack of old comics ... ?

Regards,

Bob